The rebuild of 038 – a Schweizer model SGS 1-26A, by Jim Phoenix SN038 Restoration by Jim Phoenix Articles in this Series Intro Cost Canopy Assembly Fuselage Restoration Fuselage Recover Left Wing Res...
Articles in this Series Introduction Pickup Getting Started Fuselage Rebuild Wing Rebuild Back in the Air 2014 SSA Convention Display To access this post, you must purchase Internation...
Here is the final transition from ugly duckling to a beautiful soaring bird. The left image shows it in the paint shop after the initial coat of insignia white had been sprayed to provide the base f...
Articles in this Series Introduction Pickup Getting Started Fuselage Rebuild Wing Rebuild Back in the Air 2014 SSA Convention Display To access this post, you must purchase Internation...
Articles in this Series Introduction Pickup Getting Started Fuselage Rebuild Wing Rebuild Back in the Air 2014 SSA Convention Display To access this post, you must purchase Internation...
These are all the parts it takes to put the fuselage back together again other than the frame. At this point I hadn’t taken the fabric off the wings yet so the few moving parts in them are not includ...
To establish a baseline for the project here are pictures (top) of what the sailplane looked like when it was purchased by my father in November 1962 for $256 after it had crashed when owned by the Sa...
If you’d like more information about what happened to the “Old Gallery”, please see the following blog post: Hey Admin, where is the old image gallery? Id you would like to download all of the image f...
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